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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1949
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HAI RC UT!!
Midget Gridders Strive
For Title Tie in Windup
Buckeye's Offense Tops
A mong Big Nine Teams
Whisler, Verdova, Krall Spark Runners;
Savic Rated One of Nation's Best Passers
By MERLE LEVIN
Normally a winless Uall club
wouldn't be considered much of
an obstacle in the path of a team
battling for the Conference cham-
pionship.
But these still aren't normal
times and Michigan's 150-pounders
one victory away from a tie for
the Little Big Nine title, aren't tak-
ing their Friday afternoon en-
counter with Ohio State lightly de-
spite the Buckeye's record of no
wins and three losses this year.
And the little Wolverines have
several reasons for their cautious
attitude.
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SPORTS
MERLE LEVIN, Night Editor
Big N*ine Cag~e
Play To Start
By The Associated Press
Big Nine teams will meet 40
outside opponents during the
1948-49 basketball campaign which
opens Dec. 1 and closes in March
in addition to playing 12 Confer-
ence games.
The Western Conference has au-
thorized a 22-game schedule to
consist of 12 Conference games
and up to 10 non-Conference
games. Formerly, the Conference
schools were limited to a 20-game
schedule. As of today, Illinois has
a 22-game schedule, Indiana, 22,
Iowa, 20, Michigan, 20, Minnesota,
21, Northwestern, 21, Ohio State,
19, Purdue 22 and Wisconsin, 21.
Iowa and Wisconsin are the first
conference teams - to open the
1948-49 campaign, playing Omaha
University and Ripon College re-
spectively, Dec. 1. Illinois launches
its season Dec. 3 against Butler,
while Indiana, Michigan, Minne-
sota, Northwestern and Ohio State
open Dec. 4.
FIRST OF ALL, despite their
unimpressive record, the Ohioans'
worst loss was a 26-12 defeat at
the hands of Wisconsin's powerful
Badgers who are already assured
of at least a share of the confer-
ence crown.
The Buckeyes' other defeats
were a 6-0 licking from Illinois
and a 13-6 loss suffered here two
weeks ago in the first of the
home and home series with
Michigan.
The closeness of that score alone
is enough to enable the midgets to
realize they will meet no setup at
Columbus.
** *
ANOTHER POINT still fresh in
the Wolverines' minds is their last
encounter with a victory-starved
football squad. In their first game
of the season Michigan traveled
down to Champaign, Ill. to play an
Illinois team that hadn't won a
game in six starts over a two year
span.
Michigan was being touted as
the team to beat in the light-
weight division but an inspired
Illini eleven didn't quite believe
what they read and consequently
knocked -off the Wolverines,
13-6.
S * *
THEN TOO, that old bugaboo
Tradition rears its time worn head.
If there is anything an Ohio State
team would rather do than beata
Michigan football squad it's to
beat two Michigan football squads.
And on this Homecoming
week-end they'll have three
cracks at Michigan gridders. A
triple win would send the rabid
Buckeye fans into the throes of
ecstasy and the Scarlet and
Gray footballers will be up as
they have never been up this
season.
So the little Wolverines have
been working until darkness set in
every night this week to make sure
this won't be a repeat of the near-
disastrous weekend at Illinois.
They want a- share of that
championship to take back to Ann
Arbor with them. It seems that
Michigan grid squads have devel-
oped a tradition of their own-a
championship tradition.
PANDEL SAVIC
... passing ace
Bill Fischer
Named Week's
Best Lineman
Bill Fischer, Notre Dame guard,
was named football lineman of
the week yesterday in this week's
Associated Press poll.
The 21-year-old senior from
Chicago gained the honor for his
sterling defensive play against
Northwestern, a factor that helped
keep Notre Dame in the unbeaten
and untied ranks.
Fischer was a standout in a bat-
tle of fierce line play. In addi-
tion he recovered a fumble deep
in Northwestern territory in the
last quarter.
Linemen nominated this week
include:
Ends-Hart, Notre Dame. Pra-
ther, Kansas State. Rifenburg,
Michigan.
Centers - Sarkisian, Northwes-
tern. Bednarik, Pennsylvania. Yeo-
man, Army. Dworsky, Michigan.
Michigan's defensive unit should
have its hands full this Saturday,
when they run up against the Big
Nine's top offensive team, Ohio,
State, in the season windup for
both squads.
The Buckeyes boast a powerful
running attack with fullback Joe
Whisler and halfbacks Alex Ver-
dova and Jerry Krall leading the
pack. Their passing too, is well
above average, quarterback Pandel
Savic doing most of the chucking
for the Bucks.
The Yugoslav-born back has
been hailed as one of the best
passers to face the Wolverines all
year. Reports coming into the
Michigan camp have ranked him
with Van Brocklin in accuracy.
** *
OHIO HAS JUST recently come
into its own this season. Before
the year opened, they were re-
garded as the weak-sister of the
Conference, but in their last two
games have come up tremendously
so that both the team and the
student body are fired up for the
game.
Missouri provided the opening
opposition for the Ohioans, the
Buckeyes winning an inauspi-
cious 21-7 game. A far from
strong Southern Cal team took
some of the wind out of the
OSU sails the following week,
when they trimmed them, 20-0.
Ohio was kept off victory lane
in their next game by an under -
dog Iowa squad pulling off a 14-
7 upset.
*~ * *
THEY CAME BACK, however,
winning the next two games,
downing Indiana 17-0 and Wis-
consin 34-32, before losing to,
Northwestern 21-7.
Then the Buckeyes really got
hot, grinding out a 41-0 verdict
over Pitt and riding roughshod
over Illinois 34-7.
Ohio State has also improved'
greatly over the team that Mich-
igan dropped 21-0 in the conclud-
ing game of last season and the
fans that saw that game will agree
that the Bucks were far from
weak.
CAPTAIN DAVE TEMPLETON,
who played such a great game last
year, will be 'back in his guard
post for the Ohioans along with
tackle Jack Wilson and 15 other
letter winning linemen.
Couple this with the OSU at-
tack and the 76,677 fans will
probably be in for quite a ball
game.
Despite their "on paper" su-
periority over the Bucks, the Wol-
verines aren't taking the game
lightly.
One for 'M'
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.-(/)-
The Indiana poll by the nar-
rowest of margins yesterday
picked Michigan as a better
team than Notre Dame.
The two teams, both top-
heavy victors over Indiana this
season, have dominated the As-
sociated Press poll for two sea-
sons. Michigan led comfortably
this week.
Twenty-five Hoosiers who
played against both gave Mich-
igan the nod, 12-11, with two
calling it a draw. The concensus
was that Notre Dame has the
better line and Michigan the
better backfield. Indiana line-
men favored Notre Dame and
backs voted for Michigan.
.:.
WINTER'S COMING:
Hockey Returns to Spotlight
As 'M' Pucksters Take to Ice
LOOKING FOR YOUNG IDEAS?
By B. S. BROWN'
Dear Boss:
I heard the Coliseum was open
again, so I thought I'd go down
and watch some of the figure skat-
ers work out.
I was given a bum steer; there
was just a bunch of fellows down
there. They weren't bad on the
skates, so I stuck around, figur-
ing I might be able to pick up a
story.
One of the guys skating around
kept blowing a whistle so I decided
he must be in the know. I finally
got to talk to him after chasing
him all over the ice.aIncidentally,
next time I go down there, how
about supplying me with a pillow?
I caught his eye when a little
black disk hit me in the head
while I was running in front of
some sort of netting. He came over
shouting.
"Do you know," he breathed,
softly, "that you just broke up
a scoring play?"
I wiped the blood out of my eyes
and apologized.
"Pardon me, sir," I said, "but
I'm from The Michigan Daily. Can
you possibly give me a story?"
"We'll be out," he started and
I grabbed my pencil and some
paper, "to retain the national
title we won at Colorado Springs
last year."
"What title?" I asked timidly.
He didn't smile.
"Hockey, son. Hockey. It was
the first championship tournament
ever held in the U.S., and we won
it."
Following his lead, I asked him
how he thought he'd do.
"Well, we have a lot of let-
termen back, but our schedule
is much tougher than last year.
We start off next month with
the Toledo Mercuries. They're in
the International Hockey
League, you know."
I didn't, but I looked impressed.
"Well, Gordie, McMillan, Al
Renfrew and Wally Gacek are
back. They did a fine job for me
last year on the first line. Scored
almost 80 goals between them in
22 games. They're about the main
reason we lost only two games."
I interrupted him. "Pardon me,
but just who are you?"
The last thing I remember was
someone yelling, "Leave him
alone, Vic."
I checked with the files. He
must be Vic Heyliger, the hockey
coach. I'll go back soon and see
him again. It might make a story.
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